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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

ILLINI SUCCESS Individual achievements. Global impact. Experience our points of pride. 2016-2017

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING REPORT

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Introduction

The Illini Success initiative was launched in August 2014 to gather career-related information about the next steps of bachelor's degree recipients at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The project was designed to tell the Illinois story with high quality information, updated annually.

This report focuses on the 2016-2017 bachelor's degree graduates from the College of Engineering, sharing what they are doing with their Illinois degrees. Information is also provided about learning opportunities Illinois students pursue outside of the classroom to support their career goals. The report includes those who graduated in August 2016, December 2016, and May 2017.

The data came from several verifiable sources. The vast majority (83%) of data came from the campuswide survey, which invited graduates to provide information about their post-graduation status at regular intervals for six months following their graduation. In addition to the survey, data were also gathered from college reports and a limited use of graduates' LinkedIn profiles. More details on how data were collected and analyzed are available in the methods section at the end of this report.

Table of Contents

Section I: Overview of the 2016-2017 Graduating Class ................ 1 Section II: Graduate Outcomes .................................................................. 4 Section III: Employment ................................................................................. 7 Section IV: Continuing Education ........................................................... 12 Section V: Experiential Learning .............................................................. 15 About Our Graduate Outcomes Data Collection............................... 18

Acknowledgments

The Illini Success project is a joint collaboration among the Office of the Provost, The Career Center, the College of Engineering, and the Division of Management Information. Thanks are extended to the following groups at the University of Illinois who have supported this initiative since its development, including the: Council of Undergraduate Deans, Career Services Council, Office of the Registrar, Institutional Review Board, Illini Union Marketing Team, College of Engineering Web Services Team, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Illini Success Advisory Group Members, University Chief Communications Officers, University Foundation and Alumni Relations, and countless others.

Overview of 2016-2017

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Section I: Overview of the 2016-2017 Graduating Class

We reached out to 1,690 bachelor's degree recipients in the College of Engineering graduating classes of August 2016, December 2016, and May 2017. After following this group for six months, we learned about the outcomes of 1,273 of our graduates ? a 75% knowledge rate. This section of the report shares demographic characteristics of the respondents. Respondents were representative of the College of Engineering bachelor's degree recipients on key characteristics such as academic majors, gender, ethnicity, and residency. Note that percentages on graphs of respondents by major can exceed 100% because graduates can receive dual degrees from multiple majors.

Survey Respondents by Major

Aerospace Engineering

6%

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

1%

Bioengineering

3%

Civil Engineering

Computer Engineering

Computer Science

MAJOR

Electrical Engineering Industrial Engineering Materials Science & Engineering Mechanical Science & Engineering* Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering

Physics* Systems Engineering & Design*

4% 6%

2% 5%

3%

0

5

10

13% 16%

13% 14%

14%

15

20

PERCENTAGE OF SURVEY RESPONDENTS N = 1,273 Respondents

*See Table M1 in the Methods Section (page 19) for notes on this major.

75% of College of Engineering graduates shared information about their post-graduation destinations

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Respondents by Gender

Respondents by Ethnicity

Other

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